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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:43:26 -0700
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On 4/19/2025 12:36 PM, bart wrote:
> On 19/04/2025 20:15, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 19.04.2025 00:27, bart wrote:
>>> On 18/04/2025 19:10, James Kuyper wrote:
>> ...
>>>> If all you can do is "hope for the best", you're doing it wrong. It's
>>>> your job to ensure that they are not arbitrary unrelated expressions,
>>>> but correctly related expressions, and that's no different from your
>>>> responsibility for all of the other expressions that make up your
>>>> program.
>> ...
>>>> If you find that problematic, you shouldn't be programming in
>>>> any language, but certainly not in C.
>>>
>>> I see it didn't take you long to get to the personal insult. What is it
>>> with this group?
>>
>> You are constantly complaining about how difficult you find it to be to
>> deal with various features of C that most C programmers have little or
>> no trouble dealing with.
> 
> 
>> How could I possibly justify concluding that
>> the problem lies anywhere other than in your own abilities?
> 
> Did I say I find it difficult? I said the feature was: Poor, Crude, 
> Primitive, Error prone, Hard to grok, a PITA to write, among other things.

Ouch! Chalk one up to Murphy's law, shit happens and when it occurs the 
toast always lands jelly side down. Well, shit. Also a smith and wesson 
always beats four aces. Debug some crazy race infested mutex shit, well, 
  you might start to think, whats the point! argh. lol. A person says a 
broadcast us better than a single signal, well,,, drink up!

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